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Title 21 — Food and Drugs

Chapter 9 — Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

§ 347b. Contravention of State laws

Statutory text

Nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing the possession, sale, or serving of colored oleomargarine or colored margarine in any State or Territory in contravention of the laws of such State or Territory.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 81–61 § 6 · 64 Stat. 20

    Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 347b

    (Mar. 16, 1950, ch. 61, § 6, 64 Stat. 22.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 16, 1950, ch. 61, § 6, 64 Stat. 22.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 6. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing the Sale in contravention of State laws, etc. possession, sale, or serving of colored oleomargarine or colored margarine in any State or Territory in contravention of the laws of such State or Territory.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is act Mar. 16, 1950, ch. 61, 64 Stat. 20, which is classified to sections 331, 342, 347 to 347b of this title, and sections 45 and 55 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective , see section 7 of act , set out as a note under section 347 of this title.

Credits

(Mar. 16, 1950, ch. 61, § 6, 64 Stat. 22.)

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